Event Details

This 2-day course provides a broad introduction to the essential skills necessary for managing content and configuring Drupal 7 websites. Hands-on labs will include work with Content Types, Taxonomy, Views, Menus and many useful modules.

Student Profile

This course is perfect for those who are:

newly responsible for a Drupal 7 website,

planning to build a new site in Drupal 8

preparing for delivery of a new Drupal 8 development

looking to firm up Acquia best practice knowledge for Drupal 8 Certification

Course Prerequisites

A basic understanding of the following technologies is helpful, but not required:

Authoring content using a Content Management system

Experience with Drupal's administrative interface

Agenda

Day 1: Site Building

Setting up a local environment

Planning Your New Site

What is Site Building?

Content Types

Taxonomy

Anatomy of a Drupal Page

Designing Structured Content Collection

Planning Content Types

Create a Content Type

Adding New Fields & Modifying Existing Fields

Adding Taxonomy Fields to Categorize Content

Manage Display: Modify Image Styles and Display

Set Permissions

Content Type Test Drive

Content Display and Organization

Introduction to Views

Create List of Content Using Views

Views Display Types

Adding Related Content with Views

Views Caching and Modules to Extend Views

Day 2: Site Building

Site Navigation and URLs

Custom URL Aliases

The Menu System

Module Configuration Workshop

Selecting Modules to Extend Drupal Functionality

7 Step-by-Step Labs: experiement with common functionality including Calendar and complex Views

Customizing Appearance with Themes

What are Themes?

Install and Configure Themes

Content Workflows and Site Maintenance

Custom Content Editing, CKEditor

Workbench

NOTE: All public training dates are tentative until the required number of students have enrolled. A Promet Training representative will contact you directly to confirm this course after purchase.

When

Organizer

Promet Source Training

We wrote the book on Drupal training – literally. Our training practice team is led by Acquia certified Drupal expert Margaret Plett, author of Acquia's own Drupal 8 training curricula, making Promet Training the obvious choice for students and teams seeking the most well-rounded Drupal education. With public online and in person training options throughout the United States, in addition to private training at our location or yours, our team has you covered on Drupal best practices training for developers, content editors, project managers, and everyone in between.